Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 46

@shit Babies might be cheaper than they need to be. But no matter how inexpensive you try to be when raising them they will always be any orders of magnitude more expensive than not having one.

Make? No one is "making" it cheap. It simply that humans are exp3ensive when they are alive. They need food, care, a room, people to look after them. A dead baby takers far fewer resources so **of course** it will be cheaper.

Sounds like its a good objective argument why people **should** have abortions rather than put them up for adoption. Because it consumes less of the planets resources, indicated by the fact that its cheaper.

So after 60 straight minutes of almost all my neighbors lighting off massive fireworks the air is so filled with sulfur you cant even see a few feet in front of your face. No signs it will clear up soon either.

@susi123 Aww thanks thats very sweet. I hope you have the New Years you deserve, that is to say, an awesome one!

@stevenroose

I wouldnt mind 600 days without government in america :)

@FreePietje

@retiredguru Sounds good thanks.

@retiredguru The used mag, basically would use it on a mac book pro retina.. But if someone else wants it feel free to give it to him as he or she probably needs it more than me

@retiredguru I could probably work with that. Lets sync up tomorrow when the new years is over and make some arrangements, thanks.

@retiredguru If you feel like sending a power pack to the USA id probably snatch one up if its cheap enough. I dont need one but an extra wouldnt be bad.

@FreePietje I entierly agree that its bad to compare to other countries. Its one reason that even though i do think you guys are ahead of the game of the majority off countries in how you handle drugs it is still worthy of criticism. If i compared the netherlands to other countries we as a country are probably still ahead of most. I dont mean in terms of legalization but in terms of sympathy and treating drug abuse as a disease more than something to shame.

But i agree there are also a bunch of other ways we can say the netherlands is ahead, but again its not about if your ahead or not, its just about how much parties and dogma are in the way, and I think that is absolutely present here despite having a better grasp on it than most.

@cowanon Technically every year is a new decade, the decade that is ending this year just happened to end in a 0 :)

@xyfdi Thank you, happy new year!

@FreePietje In the NL that is true, and I often represent holland as a good example of reasonably sane politics. But that isnt thanks to parties it is despite it.

Holland would certainly do much better if it didnt have parties as can be seen by the botched sorts of reactionary laws that spring up.. IE shrooms are illegal but truffles which are no better (even higher risk) are legal. Weed has a similar half assed legal structure around it. In general we see the dogma parties bring at work in this, no nuanced well crafted middle ground laws. Just a compromise between two sets of dogmas.

@FreePietje Sure but that isnt examples of parties having expertise, those are examples of dogmatic principles.

What we need is not party line dogmatics of either not spending a penny or burning all our money on social programs. We need a nuanced approach where money is spent on some things selectively but not others.

Thats exactly why we need to do away with parties all together. We dont want the extremism dogma and parties lead to, we want people who are free to arrive at nuanced solutions which would fail under dogma.

@FreePietje

It doesnt appear to me parties represent a division of expertise in any country I know of. I dont know anywhere that has a party of mathematicians or economists and another party of law experts or anything ike that (if that were the case I might see parties serving a function but it would all look very different).

Generally parties look more like religious affiliation. It tells you what dogma a person subscribes to a little else.

@stevenroose

@deejoe

true, if this were california the whole place would be up in flames right now.

@conatus

The netherlands is insane with their new years fireworks. All day there are fireworks going off literally every second with no break. Even though im out in the country there is a gunpowder fog in every direction. You open a window it smells like sulfur everywhere.

@FreePietje

I'd imagine the vast majority of america would love to do away with the two party system. Me personally I'd like to see parties as a whole disappear.

@stevenroose